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A pre-Raphaelite pledged to resist change (8)

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I believe the answer is:

rossetti

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'a pre-raphaelite pledged' is the definition.
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'to resist change' is the wordplay.
'change' indicates anagramming the letters.
'to'+'resist'='toresist'
'toresist' is an anagram of 'ROSSETTI'.

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(Other definitions for rossetti that I've seen before include "One of three poetic siblings" , "Artist" , "She wroteBleak Midwinter" , "Christina -, nineteenth century century English poet" , "English Pre-Raphaelite poet and painter, d. 1882" .)

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